Combination-tool.



No. 866,547. i I PATENTEDSBPT. 1'-7, 1907.

v T. B. WILKINSON.

COMBINATION TOOL.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 27,1906.

A WITNESSES: [NVE/WOR THOMAS B. WILKINSON, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sept. 17, 1907.

Application filed November 27,1906. Serial No. 345,390.

To all whom it may conccrn:

Be it known that I, THoMAs B. WILKINSON, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Combination-Tool, of which the following is a speciication. l

This invention, which relates generally to the class of combination tools, is more especially designed to provide a simple and inexpensive tool or implement in which is embodied a sewing awl, a riveter and a Yankee tool set and which comprehends an improved construction and arrangement of parts which includes a two part casing, one part of which has an internally extended socket for receiving and holding the ferrule that engages the threaded and split end of a tool gripping shaft or shank, the other part being also provided with an internally projected socket for receiving the shank of the riveter frame, which frame also serves as a handle member and in connection with the means for interlocking the other part of the casing with the tool holding shaft7 firmly holds the two parts of the casing together and the several members contained therein in the desired position.v

My invention also embodies a handle constructed of a two part casing 'or holder, the tool carrying plug therein, which acts as a stitiener for the casing, the

tool clamping shaft mounted longitudinally within the casing, the thread bobbin detachably and loosely supported on the said shaft within the casing and arranged for feeding the thread through the opening in the casing and a suitable tension device located within the casing for engaging the thread to hold same from feeding too freely from the bobbin.

In its more subordinate features, my invention consists in certain details of construction and peculiar combination of parts, all of which will be hereinafter explained, specically pointed out in the claims and illustrated in the drawings, in whichz- Figure l, is a perspective view oi the complete tool or implement, the parts being arranged as a sewing awl. Fig. 2, is a longitudinal section thereof, the parts being arranged as in Fig. l, the Yankee tool set being removed from the holder. Fig. 3, is a detail view of the combined spacing block and Yankee tool holder, and Fig. 4l, is a detail view ol' the thread tension device, hereinafter referred to.

In carrying out my present invention-I form the body or casing of stamped metal and the two half sections a-a/ oi like construction whereby, in their manu facture, they can be struck up from the same die. Each of the sections a-a at the outer end has an inwardly projecting socket, said sockets being designated b-bf and are centrally apertured for the purposes presently explained.

O designates the usual form of ferrule, the inner end of which, when the several parts are adjusted for use,

see Figs. l and 2, lits within and is brazed .into the socket b of the outer casing sectionAa and it has the usual internal threaded portion c for engaging with the threaded portion d/ of the split end d of the shaft D wherebythe finger or gripping ends of the said shaft D are readily adjusted to clamp the shanks of the several tools of the Yankee tools and which, in my construction of implement, includes the sewing awl d2 and other forms of needles.

The upper end ofthe shaft D'extends into the socket b on the casing section a/ and has a threaded portion cl4 to engage the screw socket c5 in the shank e of a yoke shaped frame E, which frame in the present combination oi parts, forms a portion oi a riveting machine of the usual construction and which includes the anvil piece c mounted on one arm of the yoke frame E, the adjustable sleeve e2 mounted on the other arm of the yoke frame, the adjusting screw e3 that threads into the sleeve c2 and the upsetting block e4 movable within the sleeve and which coperates with the anvil e.

The frame E has a screw socket c5, which is provided for rmly supporting the riveter upon the casing and at the same time for clamping the upper casing section on to the shaft, the said frame E also serving as a combined hand hold when using the complete implement as a screw driver.

The two sections of the casing are braced at the meeting ends by a solid wooden block F adapted to snugly nt into and iill the upper casing section, it having a socket f whereby to fit over the socket b of the casing section a, see Fig. 2, and the said block F is of such length that the inner end f 2 projects beyond the casing a whereby to snugly fit into the other casing section a when the latter is attached, and, to hold the said block F secure within the section a, a rivet or pin :c may be driven through the said section a into the block as indicated in Fig. 2. The block F is centrally apertured for the passage of the shaft D and the outer face of the block is provided with a series of longitudinal pockets f f for holding the different parts of the tool set, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

The casing section a has an aperture a3 for the passage oi the end of the sewing thread which passes from the bobbin Gr, loosely mounted upon the shaft D within the casing section a and to hold the thread from passing too freely 'from the bobbin, I provide a tension device in the nature of a slitted rubber plug or washer I-I which is fitted upon the thread between the bobbin G and the casing wall, see Fig. 2, and rictionally engages the said thread to suchan extent that unless pulled upon the thread will not feed from the bobbin.

The upper casing section in practice, may be knurled to facilitate the gripping of the tool or implement.

By arranging the several parts as shown and de* scribed, it will be readily understood that by removing the riveter frame E and unscrewing the fer-rule hom the end of the shaft D, the several parts on the casing may be readily separated and the bobbin Gr removed and the device be used as an ordinary Yankee tool set, it being understood that when the bobbin is used, the several tools of the set are removed from the block or holder F and when the bobbin is not used and is d etached from the shaft D, the tools are sustained Within the casing in the ordinary manner.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:-

1. In a tool handle, in combination; a two part casing, a shaft extending through the casing, having tool gripping members at one end, one of the casings being mounted on the tool gripping end of the shaft, a block that snugly fits within the meeting ends of the casing sections, said block having tool receiving pockets, a bobbin adapted to be de; tachably and loosely mounted on the shaft within the casing, one of the casing sections having a thread aperture, and means for securing the casing sections together, and a tool held in the said gripping members to coperatie with the bobbin.

2. A tool holder, comprising a casing formed of two sections of like construction, a shaft mounted longitudinally within the casing sections and having means at one end for detaehably receivingr and gripping the tool, a block fitted within the casing and upon the shaft, said block having tool receiving pockets, a hobbin adapted to be detachably and loosely mounted upon the shaft within the casing, the casing having a thread passage and means detachably connected to that end of the easing opposite the tool gripping end for clamping the several members together, and the tool held in the gripping members to cooperate with the bobbin.

3. ln a tool of the character described; the combination of a two part casing, a shaft longitudinally mounted within the casing and having one end projected beyond the casing, and split to receive the tool shank, a bobbin detachably and loosely supported on the shaft within the casing, the 'latter having a thread passage and means engaging the opposite ends of the casing for holding the several parts locked to an operative position, and the tool held in said gripping members to cooperate With the bobbin.

4. In a tool of the character described, a casing formed of two sections, each of said sections having a socket at the outer end, a shaft mounted Within the casing and having its opposite ends projected into the casing sockets and means on each end of the shaft for engaging said sockets and for securing the two casing sections close against each other, and upon the shaft, as set forth.

THOMAS B. WILKINSON.

Witnesses:

A. A. DAUGHERTY, MARIE A. Conan. 

